Ahead of the Christmas celebrations, fire outbreak yesterday sacked occupant of the Abakaliki rice mill located at Onuebonyi in the Ebonyi State capital, destroying valuable materials worth over N100 million.
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Ahead of the Christmas celebrations, fire outbreak yesterday sacked occupant of the Abakaliki rice mill located at Onuebonyi in the Ebonyi State capital, destroying valuable materials worth over N100 million.
Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo has claimed that Nigeria is now the food basket of the world. Speaking at the Nigerian-German Investment Dialogue in Berlin, Germany, Osinbajo said Nigeria is a leading
Alhaji Bello Abubakar, National President of the Maize Association of Nigeria (MAAN), has said it has been able to create 100,000 on-farm and off-farm jobs in 19 states through the
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the Federal Government expended N2.7 trillion on agriculture and provision of other critical infrastructure in the 2017 budget.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said former President of the Senate, Sen. Ken Nnamani, helped to restore stability to the Senate between 2005 and 2007, after many years of leadership
The Delta South Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Emmanuel Ewetan Uduaghan has lamented the devastating effects of flooding this year, 2018. He said “it has led
The cost of sugar has climbed up by 2.6 per cent according to the Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The spike in prices is predicated on drought in the world’s largest
The gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde has described the state government’s policy on agriculture as “a ruse”. He said it could
Men of the Oyo Police Command on Wednesday said they have arrested no fewer than five persons for allegedly abducting and killing a poultry farm owner, Mr. Sunday Aladeniyi, after
A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Minna has ordered the remand in prison custody of a 32-year-old farmer, Rilwan Salisu, after he pleaded guilty to a charge of rape on Tuesday.
Per Christensen, the Consul-General of Denmark, has said Nigeria can produce food for 600 million people if the right technology is applied. He stated this at the Danish Food Tech
The Cross River State Rice Seeds and Seedlings factory which was commissioned few months ago by President Muhammadu Buhari has recorded its first seeds harvest. The factory with the capacity
Harawa is a popular livestock feed usually from leaves and stems of cowpea and groundnut plants. In Sokoto, livestock tend to prefer cowpea Harawa. Most farmers in the state, therefore,
A group, Youth Farm Project (Yfarm) has disclosed plans to establish 10, 000 climate-smart agribusiness farms across the country by 2020. The Programme Manager, YFarm Project, Nkiruka Nnaemego, disclosed this
Though ginger is a common agricultural produce found in almost every household in Nigeria, most people don’t know that it can eventually become a pot of gold. The ginger root
Anxiety over poor harvest in this year’s farming season following a dry spell experienced in Jigawa State has now been replaced with hope of bumper harvest as crops are now